HackingEducationEducationVulnerability ExploitSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsLowContained

Laguna Beach Unified School District

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Severity

Low

Discovered

May 6, 2020

Filed

May 29, 2020

To disclose

23 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Laguna Beach Unified School District →

Laguna Beach Unified School District notified parents that an unauthorized individual exploited a vulnerability in the Aeries Student Information System software, accessing parent and student names, addresses, emails, and hashed passwords. The breach occurred on November 4, 2019, and was discovered in late November 2019. Over 150 California districts were impacted. The district required password changes and installed the software patch.

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California clockDiscovered May 6, 2020 → Notified May 14, 20208d ✓ CA 60-day OK23 days discovery → filing

Incident timeline

undetected · 184 days

discovery → filing · 23 days

Nov 4, 2019

Begins

May 6, 2020

Discovered

May 29, 2020

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Laguna Beach Unified School District
norm: laguna beach unified school district

Name: Laguna Beach Unified School District
norm: laguna beach unified school district
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: May 6, 2020
Breach occurred: Nov 4, 2019
Undetected for: 184 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: May 14, 2020
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Credentials
Attack vector: Unknown
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Law enforcement launched an investigation to identify the person responsible
Third party: via Aeries Student Information System
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Conducted our own investigation
Required all account holders whose accounts were involved to change their passwords
Temporarily disable account if password not changed within 14 days
Change the password to all student accounts after the school year closes
Changes made: Installed the software patch that Aeries made available to remedy the vulnerability
Reviewing our existing policies and procedures to mitigate any risk associated with this incident and to better prevent future incidents
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 23 days(23 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: CA 60-day OK · 8d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
Clock breakdown: Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status
California
Discovered: May 6, 2020
→ Notified: May 14, 2020
8d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK

Statute	Window	Elapsed	Threshold	Status
California	Discovered: May 6, 2020 → Notified: May 14, 2020	8d	60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries)	CA 60-day OK

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-190500
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: May 29, 2020
Raw hash: dfdf497970b1446f8e3978e204d5e3123d7f1e09a28d42193fae9f52ea28a470

Reporting entityLaguna Beach Unified School District

Victim entityLaguna Beach Unified School District

Incidentdiscovered May 6, 2020

Stated responseConducted our own investigation

ComplianceCA 60-day OK

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov